Composition for making soldering-sticks.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OWVEN J. FLANIGAN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMPOSITION FOR MAKING SOLDERING- STICKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 717,833, dated January 6,1903.

Application filed April 26, 1902. Serial lilo. 104,796. (N0 sp cimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OWEN J. FLANIGAN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing in Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Composition of Matter to be Used for Making Soldering-Sticks, of which the following is a specification.

The hereinafter-described composition is intended to be used, in making solderingsticks for uniting aluminium surfaces or aluminium with other metals or metallic compounds or alloys.

My composition consists of the following ingredients, combined in substantially the proportions stated,viz. spermaceti, three-fourths of a pound; mutton-tallow, one-fourth of a pound; acetic acid, three-fourths of an ounce. These ingredients are mixed byinserting them in a suitable vessel, which is placed in a vessel of boiling water, so that the ingredients are dissolved and may be mixed by agitation or other means. The product while still hot is of a pound, mutton-tallow one-fourth of a pound, and acetic acid three-fourths of an ounce, substantially as described and for the purpose specified. 4

OWEN J. FLANIGAN.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, A. N. BONNEY. 

